[ATM] Bubble Wrap mirror Cell.

Mel Bartels mbartels at bbastrodesigns.com
Mon Sep 25 05:43:51 JST 2006


> I have trawled the archives and the web for an answer on this and there is
> a
> brief discussion
> in 2003: about using bubble wrap to float the mirror.
> 
> However the responses are inconclusive and anecdotal at best: as to
> whether
> it gives good
> results or not. It seems so simple an answer and yet so unaddresssed a
> solution.


Is that all the discussion that you could find?  I seem to recall extension
bubblewrap threads over the years.  Several amateurs that I know personally
have used it successfully.  Others have failed.  The devil is in the details
of implementation and engineering.  The killer for me is that an unchanging
focal plane for imaging is difficult to obtain.

Mel Bartels




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